There was a girl had a sweetheart that was called Shawn Shamus. And
through the crying of the Banrighean-na-breena he was brought away into
a forth. The girl went to the forth looking for him, and outside of it
she saw the Banrighean, the Queen, sitting and she combing her hair, and
having a blue dress on her like those flowers that grow in the fields.
‘Will you give me back Shawn Shamus?’ says the girl. ‘I will not,’ says
the Queen. And she went on talking for a while, the girl asking and the
Queen refusing. And at the last the Queen said: ‘I will give him to you
if you will bring me a hundred barrels of six-penny money, a hundred
fillies all of the one colour, a hundred spotted cows, a hundred ganders
and a fleet of geese; a hundred slips and a hundred pigs, a hundred
goats that are without damage or roguery.’ So the girl went looking for
all those, and she brought every one of them to the Queen of the forth
except the goats, for she could not get one that was honest, they are
all full of roguery. Everything else but the goats she brought. So the
Queen gave up Shawn Shamus, and they married and lived happy.
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